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I agree. I'm reminded of the fact that most large Fediverse instances also have pages upon pages of speech policies which in my opinion undermine the entire endeavor. I still believe in free speech, even if someone is off the deep end, they self-tag at that point and I can avoid them. Sure, things like harassment etc. aren't great but any belief or opinion expressed genuinely and respectfully shouldn't be banned.

~wolfinthewoods wrote:

speaking of retro computing

what vintage rig

would you recommend

for a good dedicated

word processor?

i was thinking maybe a iie

since they're so ubiquitous

(and i imagine prob a big hobbyist

community still)

~detritus wrote (thread):

I think one of the worst parts of the internet being flooded with trolls, alt-righters, and the like, is that communities often feel the need to write at length how to behave, and any and all political discussion is highly discouraged. Generally, people know how to behave, they don't really have to be told how to get along with others on the internet. But some sites are more liable to get that kind which nobody really wants. Imageboards, for example. I've browsed a few imageboards in the past, and for some reason, one of them attracts the alt-righters like flies to shit, whereas another one rarely ever gets that kind of people at all.

Idk, idk. I don't really care for micromanaging how people behave on the internet. Ideally, everybody should be free to act as they see fit, but there are terminal screen adicts that tend to degrade the level of a site to a point where it really becomes a shitfest (or as inquiry says, a self-fest?), as I have been witness to that with one particular site which, as I said, tends to attract a wide assortment of um, of clearly unbalanced people.

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